Known for Acting
Michel Vuillermoz (born 18 December 1962) is a French actor and scriptwriter. Vuillermoz has appeared in more than 100 films and 40 plays. In 1998, he received two Molière Award: Best Male Newcomer and Best Play for André le Magnifique. Since 2007, he is one of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française. In 2009, Vuillermoz signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case. Source: Article "Michel Vuillermoz" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born
December 18, 1962 (age 63)
Birthplace
Orléans, Loiret, France
Filmography
107 films, 12 shows


Savages
2024 · 1h 27m
country: Switzerland
In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction.


The Darwinners
2024 · 1h 20m
country: Belgium
In a prehistory for operettas that is seemingly doomed never to evolve, a conflicted father and daughter disrupt the Stone Age routine. After a tragic-comedy round-trip to the future, they accidentally bring back an Ikea “bent key”, which will at last trigger Evolution, for better or for worse… Writing, religion, politics… who will be capable of putting an end to these disasters?


Rachel's Game
2024 · 1h 58m
country: France
Home cook Rachel, a sort of Ma Dalton, has raised her sons Sam and Jeremiah, and her grandson, Nathan, in the cult of conning. From bad plans to petty theft, this friendly family of broken arms is always after the big score. Luck or fate, during a burglary, they steal a painting by Tamara de Lempicka without knowing its value. Céleste, a shrewd and charming detective, sets out in pursuit.


Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion
2023 · 2h 18m
country: France
The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.


Inestimable
2023 · 1h 33m
country: France
Based on a true story : the discovery of Lava's treasure, in 1985 near Ajaccio.


The President's Wife
2023 · 1h 34m
country: France
When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.


Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg
2023 · 1h 28m
country: France
How to grow up without betraying the child within us? In 1982, with "E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial", Steven Spielberg revolutionised popular film by creating a blockbuster about childhood. Forty years later, this universal story, filmed through a child's eyes, continues to inspire a generation who grew up enchanted by the film.


The Way to Happiness
2022 · 1h 55m
country: Belgium
Saul escaped the coming Shoah as a child by being sent from Vienna to Brussels by a Kindertransport. Now in 1986, he is on the road to resilience and owner of a Delicatessen dedicated to the "Septième Art" - the movies. With Joakin, his protégé, a young Chilean director, they decide to write the story of Saul's childhood and make it into a film. But love comes knocking at his door and confronts him with his past as a hidden child...


The Time of Secrets
2022 · 1h 44m
country: France
Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hills in Provence. What begins as a summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of the first loves, and unearthed secrets.


Les Particules élémentaires
2022 · 1h 59m
country: France
2009. Michel Djerzinski, a genius researcher specialized in molecular biology, mysteriously disappears in Ireland. His latest discoveries would have opened the way to a major upheaval in the history of human genetics. This is the occasion for a dizzying plunge in time where we discover his half-brother Bruno, a tortured joker who will meet love in a post-sixties campsite, Janine, Bruno's and Michel's mother, a former hippie who has always refused to raise her children in a conventional way, and Annabelle, with whom Michel will fall in love as a child.


Angels in America
2021 · 2h 26m
country: France
New York, 1985. Against the backdrop of AIDS - divine punishment inflicted on gays according to puritan America -, angels, who epilogue on the emptiness of the American dream, cross paths with the ghost of the spy Ethel Rosenberg, separating lovers and destitute patients. Prior, suffering from the AIDS virus, loves Louis who is about to leave him. Roy Cohn, man of power, Jewish and homosexual lawyer, anti-Semite and homophobe, lives in denial of his HIV status. Harper takes refuge in drugs to soften her married life with Joe, whose uncertain sexuality clashes with well-established religious beliefs. Following the cancellation of "Angels in America"performances due to the health crisis of 2020, the project became a TV movie: "Angels - Salle Escande" is shot in the privacy of rehearsals.


Les Damnés de la Commune
2021 · 1h 27m
country: France
Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871.


French Tech
2021 · 1h 32m
country: France
Down-on-his-luck, unemployed Alexandre has two months to prove to his wife he can take care of his two young kids and be financially independent. Now, the thing is, although The Box, a user-friendly startup, wants to hire him on pro- bation, the company’s slogan is “No kids!” and Séverine, his future boss, is a short-tempered “killer”. So if Alexandre wants to land the job, he’s bound to lie... Will his meeting with Arcimboldo, an “entrepreneur of himself” and the king of online odd jobs, help the brave, disoriented Alexandre overcome all those challenges?


Marc Chagall – Between Two Worlds
2020 · 52m
country: France
Marc Chagall was an artist caught between two worlds, between traditional art and modernism, figuration and abstraction. The film accompanies him on an important stage of his life from 1910 to 1930, between Paris and Vitebsk. Chagall's home town was a laboratory for the artistic avant-garde in Belarus, while Paris was the center of modern art movements.


Bye Bye Morons
2020 · 1h 27m
country: France
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.


Claire Andrieux
2020 · 1h 32m
country: France
A single forty-something, with a well-regulated life, sees a heavy secret poisoning her budding relationship with a man she fell in love with.


An Officer and a Spy
2019 · 2h 12m
country: France
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.


The Golden Anniversary
2019 · 1h 35m
country: France
"Allow me to be your husband." Not only does Alix Saint-Cast, who has Alzheimer's disease, recognize her husband Octave two days before her Golden Wedding, she has also fallen in love again. Their new beloved is Farhad Mozafari, Iranian, also suffering from Alzheimer's disease and can not be separated from Alix. So Farhad has to come with son Iradj and his little daughter to the stately home of the Saint-Casts. However, they are only gradually aware of the unusual family encounters that newcomers have accepted.


L'Hôtel du libre-échange
2019
country: France


No Filter
2019 · 1h 40m
country: France
Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will turn into a joyful fist because if Beatrice changed the names, each of his friends seeks to find his character. The book awakens secret jealousies, while the group of friends and family pitch.


Le Mariage de Figaro
2018 · 2h 32m
country: France
A staging of Beaumarchais's play "The Marriage of Figaro" by Christophe Rauck.


Le vieux juif Blonde
2018
country: France


Bécassine !
2018 · 1h 42m
country: France
Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby named Loulotte. A strong bond develops between Becassine and Loulotte, and life is sweet, until the Grand-Airs are threatened with financial ruin… Can Bécassine save the day? Naïve, funny, dreamy, optimistic, loving, Bécassine is also inventive, courageous and always ready to handle any situation in her own unique way – a superheroine like no other. César-winner Bruno Podalydès returns with a family movie adapted from the beloved French comic book Bécassine.


Prénom: Mathieu
2018 · 1h
country: Switzerland
Seventeen-year-old Mathieu Reymond lies brutally battered and raped in a field of reeds. It is only after his release from hospital that the memories come back, unannounced and fragmentary, but still so precise that regular meetings with two police officers not only allow the perpetrator’s identikit image to take shape, but also the chronology of the crime itself.


Joint Custody
2017 · 1h 33m
country: France
A wife finds out her husband has a mistress. She decides to propose her to share her life with her husband, alternating every two weeks.


See You Up There
2017 · 1h 53m
country: Canada
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.


Knock
2017 · 1h 53m
country: France
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.


Cyrano de Bergerac
2017 · 3h 10m
country: France
Cyrano has a prominent nose but also a gift with words by which he helps handsome Christian to conquer Roxane. Also in love with the girl he chooses not to reveal to her that every word of Christian comes out of his own heart. In cinema, this ROSTAND classic filmed live from the Comédie Française.


L'assiette de mon voisin
2017
country: France


Ruby Is Dead
2017 · 1h 33m
country: France
The body of a teenager is found in a river.


Divorce French Style
2016 · 1h 30m
country: France
Two years have passed. After missing their separation, the Leroy seem perfectly successful in their divorce. But the appearance of two new lovers in the life of Vincent and Florence will set fire to the powders. The match between the former spouses resumes.


My Life as a Zucchini
2016 · 1h 6m
country: France
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.


Carpet and Chaos
2016 · 1h 31m
country: Iran
While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the paterfamilias of a family from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in Brive-la-Gaillarde. His wife and his oldest son travel to France to bring his body home and to investigate the circumstances of his death.


The Roommates Party
2015 · 1h 42m
country: France
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.


All Three of Us
2015 · 1h 42m
country: France
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.


Three Sisters
2015 · 1h 50m
country: France
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.


The Sweet Escape
2015 · 1h 45m
country: France
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.


Daddy or Mommy
2015 · 1h 25m
country: France
Florence and Vincent Leroy are a model couple. They have great jobs, a perfect marriage and delightful children. And now they want their divorce to be an equal success. But when they are both simultaneously promoted to their dream jobs, their relationship becomes a nightmare. From that moment on, the gloves are off, the two exes declare war and will do everything in their power to NOT have custody of their children.


SK1
2015 · 2h
country: France
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.


Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015
country: France


The Forest
2014 · 1h 22m
country: France
The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud Desplechin film. With Michel Vuillermoz and Denis Podalydès as the nephew and his friend, Adeline D’Hermy as the niece, and Martine Chevallier in a stunning performance as the sublimely selfish aunt Raissa.


The List of My Desires
2014 · 1h 38m
country: France
When the little haberdasher Arras discovers she's won 18 million in the lottery and can now afford anything she wants, she has only one fear: losing the small joys of life made simple it cherishes above all. But fate is obstinate, and this is giving too long this good fortune will trigger it, despite herself, a hurricane that will change everything. Everything except her.


Life of Riley
2014 · 1h 48m
country: France
In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.


Never on the First Night
2014 · 1h 31m
country: France
Julie, a woman who is unlucky in love despite her bubbly demeanor. Her job at a bookstore takes an interesting twist when she discovers a book titled "Happiness Can Be Learned," and she sets out to fix her love life once and for all.


Longwave
2013 · 1h 25m
country: France
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.


Love Is in the Air
2013 · 1h 36m
country: France
Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them, they are going to have to speak to each other.


Camille Rewinds
2012 · 1h 55m
country: France
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?


You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012 · 1h 55m
country: France
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play 'Eurydice'. These actors watch a recording performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...


Granny's Funeral
2012 · 1h 40m
country: France
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.


Maman
2012 · 1h 28m
country: France
Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.


You Don't Choose Your Family
2011 · 1h 43m
country: France
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a little girl from Thailand. Caesar believes this to be a great idea and is looking forward to his trip to Thailand. After all, he is going to be able to mix business with pleasure--so he thinks. He didn't expect the local police, the Chinese Triads and the director of the orphanage to chip in, who want to make sure that little Mai is going to end up in a nice family.


18 Years Old and Rising
2011 · 1h 32m
country: France
Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.


Midnight in Paris
2011 · 1h 34m
country: France
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.


15 Lads
2011 · 1h 26m
country: France
Summer 1944, France. Racine is a carefree 19-year-old first-aid worker, his secret desire is to be able to sleep with Isabelle, the girl he's in love with. One evening they are about to take the plunge, but a resistance fighter comes to ask for help. Racine goes up to the maquis to impress the young girl and joins a group of fifteen immature boys. But up there, nothing goes as planned. The war catches up with them, brutally marking the end of an innocence and Racine finds himself caught in the crossfire.


Top Floor Left Wing
2010 · 1h 34m
country: France
Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city, then quietly return home. But that day, fate decided otherwise. Due to a misunderstanding, he is taken hostage by an impoverished father and his wild son...


The Princess of Montpensier
2010 · 2h 19m
country: France
Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier.


L'appel du 18 juin
2010
country: France


À 10 minutes de la plage
2010
country: Belgium
Every summer, Charles Lemoulec, director of an insurance company, takes his family to the Île de Ré. But this year, the vacation is in jeopardy because the family business is facing bankruptcy. To avoid disappointing his loved ones, who are unaware of the situation, Charles decides to swap his residence in Saint Germain en Laye for a superb hacienda in the South of France...


Blind Fear
2009
country: France
After loosing her unborn baby on a car accident, Betty seeks for new purposes on a new job caring after a blind boy in a isolated house. Her hopes on a new beginning turn into a nightmare when she uncovers the Alps' dark secrets.


Wild Grass
2009 · 1h 44m
country: France
A quirky woman who spends her free time as a pilot has her purse stolen; a mysterious man finds her wallet, and they embark on a peculiar romance.


One for the Road
2009 · 1h 46m
country: France
Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a detox clinic in Geneva, his last-chance saloon. There he meets a group of fellow sufferers and one person in particular, a young woman named Magali, who help him to see life other than through the bottom of an empty bottle.


Park Benches
2009 · 1h 50m
country: France
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.


Off and Running
2008 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
A missed highway exit leads Darry Marzouki, an unemployed magician, to cross paths with Irène Montier Duval, a wealthy woman carrying a Hermès bag full of cash. Out of love, she acted as an intermediary in an arms deal between a French minister and Korea. When the deal was exposed, the minister tried to pin the blame on her. On the run, she offers to pay Darry to drive her to Geneva in his BMW. The problem? The BMW isn’t his—he impulsively stole it from his hot-tempered brother-in-law, who’s out for blood. Unable to accept Irène’s offer, Darry pretends to be an activist heading to a summit in Locarno. Irène, eager for a change, plays along. They have little in common but spend three unforgettable days together—while being chased by Koreans, French intelligence, a minister, and the furious brother-in-law. In the end, one finds love, the other freedom.


Ça se soigne ?
2008 · 1h 26m
country: France
Tom has everything going for him! He is a renowned and celebrated conductor, sought after all over the world, and his talent is a source of national pride. He is rich, intelligent, and cultured. He has a dream wife with a promising future in aerospace. He has just moved into a magnificent apartment. In short, he is thriving, and everything is going perfectly for him. But a simple traffic light triggers his downfall! He spirals into depression, consults the top specialists, raises countless questions, experiences periods of recovery and bursts of excitement, only to plunge back into a bottomless pit, pushing away everyone trying to bring him back to reason. When "Tom the genius" collapses under the weight of his illness, it marks the beginning of a nightmare for all his friends. Worse—it’s a tsunami!


To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · 1h 40m
country: France
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.


Cyrano de Bergerac
2007
country: France


Demandez la permission aux enfants !
2007 · 1h 36m
country: France


Atonement
2007 · 2h 3m
country: France
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.


Private Fears in Public Places
2006 · 2h
country: France
Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?


A House of Your Dreams
2006 · 1h 40m
country: France
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.


Cabaret Paradis
2006 · 1h 38m
country: Unknown
Shirley and Dino arrive in Paris to take over a cabaret inherited from their uncle. On the verge of bankruptcy, the establishment is coveted by local hoodlums, ready to do anything to get rid of the new owners. But this is without counting on the inventiveness, innocence and tenacity of Shirley and Dino... who have one week to save their Cabaret Paradis.


Avenue Montaigne
2006 · 1h 46m
country: Belgium
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.


Quatre étoiles
2006 · 1h 46m
country: France
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.


Gentille
2005 · 1h 38m
country: France
As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he looks normal, but she's sorry, she doesn't have time to have coffee with him. When he convincingly protests that he was not following her, she apologizes and asks him to have coffee. Fontaine would seem to have a relatively good life. She works as an anesthetist at a fancy mental hospital, and she's got a live-in Nobel Prize-winning arctic scientist boyfriend, Michel, who seems to love her. But there's clearly something nagging at her. She walks around in a perpetually distracted state, and frequently mistakes other peoples' identities and their intentions. When Michel proposes to her, she needs some time to digest it before she responds.


Royal Palace
2005 · 1h 40m
country: France
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.


Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages
2005 · 1h 7m
country: France
All shorts films of director Jan Kounen on DVD.


How Much Do You Love Me?
2005 · 1h 35m
country: France
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.


Grey Souls
2005 · 1h 46m
country: France
In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.


The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005 · 1h 55m
country: France
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.


Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
country: Unknown


An Innocent Little Game
2004 · 1h 28m
country: France
Claire et Bruno forment depuis douze ans un couple établi, une "institution". Au cours d'une journée à la campagne réunissant tous leurs proches, ils vont, par jeu, prétendre qu'ils se séparent.


Me and My Sister
2004 · 1h 32m
country: France
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in the city, she stays with her older sister, Martine, who in many ways is the exact opposite of Louise: she lives in a fashionable neighborhood, is cold to others, and has snobby friends, while Louise lives in a small town and is thoroughly unpretentious. Louise's apparent happiness -- and similarities to their mother -- gradually gets on Martine's nerves.


A Very Long Engagement
2004 · 2h 13m
country: France
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.


The First Time I Turned Twenty
2004 · 1h 38m
country: France
In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ridicule, but she has a talent for music and is determined to fulfil her ambition to play in the school jazz band.


The Cost of Living
2003 · 1h 38m
country: France
Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi certains dépensent-ils de manière convulsive là où d'autres retiennent l'argent comme la partie la plus vitale de leur être ? On croit parler d'argent, mais c'est d'amour dont il s'agit.


Bon Voyage
2003 · 1h 54m
country: France
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.


Once Upon an Angel
2002 · 1h 25m
country: France
A grief-stricken man who just lost his mother has a one night stand with a maid. What he doesn't know is that she's a virgin. He returns to his sad world of perfume business while she, unable to forget her first lover, follows him.


Absolutely Fabulous
2001 · 1h 45m
country: France
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. The duo leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated — be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust.


Du côté des filles
2001 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
A suburban pavilion, garden gnomes, a bloody scene. Break between Fred and Liza. As happiness never comes alone, Carole, emerges, announces to Liza that she is pregnant with Fred. Liza takes the kid in a wagon stolen from Fred.


André le magnifique
2000 · 1h 30m
country: France
An actor who does not suffer fools gladly finds himself replaced by one in this comedy. The citizens of a French village decide to celebrate their history by staging a play that will chronicle memorable events from the town's past. The play's author, Alexis, casts his wife Janine (Isabelle Candelier) in the leading female role despite her odd way of delivering dialogue. However, for the male lead, Alexis hires an arrogant professional actor from Paris, Jean-Pascal Faix. The village simpleton, Andre , has volunteered to serve as a stagehand and prompter. When Andre mistakenly leads Jean-Pascal into a trash dumpster that's soon dragged away, he's convinced (falsely) that he's killed the Parisian actor -- and is determined to take his place so that the show will go on.


Actors
2000 · 1h 43m
country: France
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.


Le Créateur
1999 · 1h 32m
country: France
A playwright of note, Darius developed a drinking problem after his first major hit, and has taken time out from writing his follow-up to go to a clinic and dry out. After his release, Darius finds his producer has hired a leading lady for his next show, booked the theater and advertised the starting date -- all without Darius writing so much as a word of this new play. Darius desperately tries to come up with ideas, but nothing comes to mind, with an inflexible deadline staring him in the face. One day, Darius kills a neighbor's cat by accident; terribly depressed, he swallows some sedatives and falls asleep at his computer -- only to awake with the beginning of his play glowing on the screen. Darius is now convinced he must kill in order to create, and starts murdering an ever-expanding variety of creatures in order to satisfy his now bloodthirsty muse.


Only God Sees Me
1998 · 2h
country: France
Albert, a sound engineer who is chronically hesitant successively meets three charming young women who will, each in their own way, provoke and help him to get a better hold of himself.


Serial Lover
1998 · 1h 23m
country: France
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.


On a très peu d'amis
1998 · 1h 25m
country: France
Two friends are taken hostage while on their way to see a childhood buddy.


Bernie
1996 · 1h 27m
country: France
Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.


Petit
1996
country: Unknown
After a night of drinking on the eve of his wedding, Léo wakes up as a child...


News from the Good Lord
1996 · 1h 40m
country: France
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.


My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
1996 · 3h 1m
country: France
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?
Le Homard
Le Homard
1995
country: France
In a large restaurant, a lobster anxiously waits for the moment when it will be pointed out by a customer.


Vibroboy
1994 · 28m
country: France
An old aztec statue brought back from Mexico to France by a transvestite and an acrobat suddenly releases El Vibro, a.k.a. Vibroboy, a superhero endowed with a phallic driller...


Désiré
1993 · 15m
country: Unknown
The year is 2050, in this future giving birth is nothing more than a simple formality. But the birth of Désiré will be much more painful...


A Night in Versailles
1992 · 45m
country: France
A young man in Versailles invites a Parisian girl to his place for dinner. The evening is thrown into turmoil.


Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990 · 1h 37m
country: France
Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.


Les Sales Histoires
1990
country: France


Cyrano de Bergerac
1990 · 2h 17m
country: France
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.


Gang of Four
1989 · 2h 40m
country: France
Anna, Joyce, Claude, and Cécile are four young actresses sharing a Paris apartment while attending intense acting workshops led by their demanding teacher Constance. As they rehearse scenes and navigate the tensions of living together, their personal lives begin to grow complicated when Joyce becomes involved with a mysterious older man whose presence slowly pulls the others into a web of secrets and suspicions, blurring the boundary between the roles they perform and the lives they're actually living.